It would be more shocking if the catalog were not filled with communist offerings.
Campus Reform reports:
UC Berkeley course catalog found to be abundant with Marxist offeringsThe University of California, Berkeley offers a number of progressive-themed courses promoting philosophies such as Marxism, feminist theory, postcolonial theory, and more.Campus Reform previously reported on the school’s “Interdisciplinary Marxist Working Group,” which studies the “ongoing relevance of Marxism to the current historical moment, as an explicitly global project.”A closer look at UC Berkeley’s course catalog, however, reveals a pervasive Marxist influence not just in its working group, but throughout many of its course offerings as well.The school’s “Program in Critical Studies,” which was “launched with the intention of providing graduate students the opportunity to train in true interdisciplinarity, bringing together some of the most rigorous and innovative forms of critique from across the humanities and social sciences,” hosts a variety of seminars promoting left-leaning political and economic philosophies.Five of the seminars explicitly state their inclusion of Marxist content in their course descriptions. Critical Theory 240, for instance, includes topics such as “critical theory and Marxism,” “critical race theory,” and “postcontinental political theory.”Other seminars, such as Critical Theory 205, study the Frankfurt School, which is a school of thought now known as Critical Theory that originated from the Goethe University’s Institute for Social Research in the 1920s. The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy explains the subject as “a specific interpretation of Marxist philosophy with regards to some of its central economic and political notions like commodification, reification, fetishization and critique of mass culture.”“What insights might the Frankfurt School offer into our own critical times?” the course description asks. “This seminar revisits foundational texts of the Frankfurt School in conjunction with recent work that has engaged with critical theory from the perspectives of climate crisis, digital technologies, feminist and queer politics, postcolonialism, the prison-industrial complex, and right-wing extremism.”
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